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President Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his feud with the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, calling him "a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!" Trump's broadside on Twitter came after George Conway, a conservative lawyer and frequent critic of the president, publicly questioned...

A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing out west. The decision by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Rudolph Contreras marks the first time the Trump administration...

Beto O'Rourke plonked down on his living room sofa beside his wife, Amy, and promptly removed his shoes and socks. It was a late February morning, weeks before announcing his candidacy for president, and Beto had just returned from his favorite hike in the nearby Franklin Mountains. His head was...

Carrying a bitter personal feud beyond the grave, President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the late Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, declaring he will "never" be a fan of the Vietnam war hero and longtime Republican lawmaker who died last year of brain cancer. "I was never a fan of John McCain,...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ratcheted up a remarkable public spat with the husband of one of his top advisers, attacking Kellyanne Conway's husband as a "total loser" on Twitter in response to the lawyer's persistent questions about his mental health and competency. "A total loser!" Trump ...

Former House speaker Paul Ryan has landed his first post-Congress job as a board member for Fox, the new parent company of Fox News. Fox spun off from the larger 21st Century Fox, which Rupert Murdoch sold to Walt Disney Co. Ryan, R-Wis., who retired from Congress last year citing his desire to...

Special counsel Robert Mueller obtained court-approved warrants to search the emails of President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen in July 2017 as his office investigated whether Cohen had illegally worked for foreign entities, according to newly unsealed documents illustrating how the investigation...

Meghan McCain said Monday that President Donald Trump is leading "a pathetic life" as she escalated her pushback against Trump's weekend attacks on Twitter against her late father. "He spends his weekend obsessing over great men, because he knows it, and I know it, and all of you know it, he will...

Top Democrats in Congress want the FBI to conduct criminal and counterintelligence probes into a Chinese American business executive accused of using her personal access to President Donald Trump to facilitate business opportunities for Chinese executives, activities that came to light after a...

Beto O'Rourke reported raising more than $6.1 million during the first 24 hours of his presidential campaign, a record-setting haul that narrowly tops the amount announced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and dwarfs everyone else in the 2020 field. O'Rourke was a fundraising juggernaut during his U.S. Senate...

President Donald Trump said he wants an immediate start to talks between General Motors and the United Auto Workers, extending to a third day his calls for the carmaker and union to reopen an Ohio factory. "Get that big, beautiful plant in Ohio open now," Trump said on Twitter early Monday, after...

Pete Buttigieg - the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is likely to become a presidential candidate - won't wear his dress jacket, not when he appears on national television for a town hall meeting, not for photo shoots, not even at a fundraiser here in a Russian-themed bar where he's mingling...

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand formally joined the 2020 White House race on Sunday and previewed the hard line she will take against President Donald Trump by announcing a rally outside one of his signature Manhattan properties. She had spent more than a month traveling around the country to...

President Donald Trump is again training his fire on the late Sen. John McCain, nearly seven months after the Arizona Republican's death from brain cancer. Trump's tweets over the weekend prompted a rebuke from the senator's daughter Meghan McCain and from some lawmakers. On Saturday, Trump quoted...

Democratic presidential contender Beto O'Rourke on Friday acknowledged making mistakes as a teen and as a candidate, responding to criticism of his campaign rhetoric toward his wife as well as writings he produced online when he was young. During a taping of the "Political Party Live" podcast in...

Unbowed by a congressional rebuke, President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday in a demonstration that he is not through fighting for his signature campaign promise, which stands largely unfulfilled 18 months before voters decide whether to grant him another term. Trump...

President Donald Trump played down any threat posed by racist white nationalism on Friday after the gunman accused of the New Zealand mosque massacre called the president "a symbol of renewed white identity." Trump, whose own previous responses to the movement have drawn scrutiny, expressed sympathy...

President Donald Trump's claims that reduced tensions with North Korea resulting from his personal diplomacy with Kim Jong Un demonstrated progress toward a nuclear deal were undercut Friday as Pyongyang lashed out at the administration's "gangsterlike" tactics and blamed his top aides for the...

Before Beto O'Rourke became the darling of liberal online donors, his top financial backers hailed from a different set entirely: wealthy businessmen who have sought political influence by collectively donating millions of dollars to Republicans. Several of El Paso's richest business moguls donated...

In a stunning rebuke, a dozen defecting Republicans joined Senate Democrats Thursday to block the national emergency that President Donald Trump declared so he could build his border wall with Mexico. The rejection capped a week of confrontation with the White House as both parties in Congress...

The House voted unanimously Thursday for a resolution calling for any final report in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation to be made public, a symbolic action designed to pressure Attorney General William Barr into releasing as much information as possible when the probe is concluded....

Democrat Beto O'Rourke jumped into the 2020 presidential race Thursday, shaking up the already packed field and pledging to win over voters from across the political spectrum as he tries to translate his sudden celebrity into a formidable White House bid. The former Texas congressman began his...

The last remaining U.S. diplomats in Caracas have left Venezuela "for the time being," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday shortly after they and their Marine guards boarded a flight for the United States. "The United States government, at all levels, remains firm in its resolve and support...

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar arrived in Washington this week as part of an annual trip ahead of St. Patrick's Day. The Irish leader aims to use the meeting to reaffirm the historical ties between Ireland and the United States. "I think that the relationship between Ireland and the U.S. is...

An eleventh-hour rescue mission by Republican senators to stave off an awkward defeat for President Donald Trump on his declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, and to protect themselves from a politically dicey vote opposing him, seemed to collapse Wednesday. The setback made...

As President Donald Trump consulted with administration officials Wednesday over whether Boeing's 737 Max jetliners should be grounded after a crash killed more than 150 passengers in Ethiopia over the weekend, he shared his pointed opinion of the type of plane in question. In his words, it "sucked."...

The Senate voted Wednesday to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, its latest rebuke of the Trump administration's continued embrace of the Saudi monarchy despite growing frustration among lawmakers with its actions on the world stage. The 54-to-46 vote marks the second...

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on federal charges Wednesday, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York that could put him outside the president's power to pardon. In Washington, U.S. District Judge...

Beto O'Rourke is youthful and has little political record to run on. Joe Biden is older and has a decades-long history, featuring both successes and mistakes. O'Rourke brings a viral energy to his campaigns, while Biden, still figuring out how to harness social media, specializes in the traditional...

President Donald Trump lamented the complexity of modern airplanes Tuesday in the wake of two deadly crashes in the past five months, appearing to speculate on the cause of the disasters before aviation experts from the United States and elsewhere complete their investigations. The president commented...

Calls from members of Congress to ban the Boeing 737 Max from U.S. airspace increased Tuesday, with Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, joining several Democratic lawmakers in advocating for restrictions similar to those imposed by a growing list of other nations. In a tweet, Romney said the Federal Aviation...

The New York attorney general has subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank related to three large loans the bank extended to President Donald Trump's company in recent years - and a fourth loan that Trump sought to buy the NFL's Buffalo Bills, according to two sources familiar with the subpoenas. ...

The United States said Tuesday it would pull its remaining diplomatic personnel from Venezuela this week, rupturing relations as the socialist South American country plunges deeper into chaos. Venezuelan society appears to be unraveling amid a nationwide blackout and critical water shortages that...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Donald Trump even though she believes he is "unfit" for office - her first definitive statement on the subject and one that stands to alienate members of her own Democratic Party who are intent on ousting...

Are you a conservative who is wary of dining out while wearing your red "Make America Great Again" hat? Do you wish you knew where you could freely sport a "Trump 2020" shirt while running errands? There's an app for that. Earlier this month, an Oklahoma developer launched "63red Safe," described...

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders declined to say Monday whether President Donald Trump believes Democrats "hate Jewish people," arguing that reporters should pose that question to Democratic lawmakers. According to an attendee, Trump said Friday at a Republican National Committee fundraiser...

President Donald Trump unveiled his 2020 budget Monday that basically has no chance of getting enacted. Even Republicans balk at some of Trump's proposed cuts. But the 150-page budget reveals a lot about Trump's top priorities as his reelection campaign gets into full swing, and he looks to make...

President Donald Trump is making another attempt to slash federal funding that goes toward cleaning up major U.S. waterways including the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay, even though Congress has thwarted his previous attempts, according to budget documents released Monday. Trump's 2020 spending...